Germany plays an active role in international climate policy and advocates climate cooperation worldwide.

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million kilometres is the length of the German national grid. You could circumnavigate the globe at the Equator 45 times using the cables. The vast majority of the grid, namely a total of 1.44 million kilometres or 80 percent, is underground. Around 350,000 kilometres are power lines. The supra-regional high-voltage lines are 34,810 kilometres long. About 2,650 kilometres of new power lines are being planned as part of the Energy Reform.

16 national parks and 16 biosphere reserves between the North Sea and the Alps afford many rare animal and plant species special protection.

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Wild animals For several years now, an increasing number of wild animals have been ­resettling in Germany. In more than 60 packs, an estimated total of up to 600 wolves are now roaming the eastern and northern federal states. Wild cats and lynxes are being sighted ever more frequently. The number of pairs of breeding sea ­eagles has reached unprecedented heights; otters are almost a familiar sight again. There have even been occasional sightings of elks and brown bears, which are wandering into ­Germany from neighbouring countries in the east.

The cliché: your average German loves their car more than anything. But actually, they love their bicycles even more. Karl Freiherr von Drais designed a free-wheeling bicycle 200 years ago in southwestern Germany, his contribution to what would become the bicycle’s international success story.

«Towards a global Energiewende» – the motto of the “Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2016“ makes it very clear about where we are going in terms of energy supplies. The second international energy transition conference at the German Foreign Office in March saw politicians and businesspeople coming together to exchange experiences.